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I discovered not too long ago that I have inadvertantly amassed a sizeable horde of goblins. I remembered the ones that came with the same starter set as the Dwarves, but completely forgot about the 40 or so that I had from the 4th ed Warhammer box. Currently going through the BattleMasters, Dark World and extra Heroquest figures and simple greening some reinforcements for them.

But that'll be awhile yet, I still have 72 very impatient Dwarves to paint.

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I discovered not too long ago that I have inadvertantly amassed a sizeable horde of goblins. I remembered the ones that came with the same starter set as the Dwarves, but completely forgot about the 40 or so that I had from the 4th ed Warhammer box. Currently going through the BattleMasters, Dark World and extra Heroquest figures and simple greening some reinforcements for them.

But that'll be awhile yet, I still have 72 very impatient Dwarves to paint.

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